Teachers' Pay

Mr. Dawson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she intends to make information available to schools on the level of financial support for the teachers' pay award next year. [31295]

Mr. Timms:
The pay award will be funded from schools' general budgets. The effective increase in Education Standard Spending is 5.7 per cent. for 200203 compared with an estimated cost of the pay settlement of 4 per cent. It is for local education authorities to notify schools formally of the level of their budgets in 200203 by 31 March.

SSA (Cambridgeshire)

Mrs. Anne Campbell:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the Cambridgeshire local education authority spend on education above SSA per pupil for the primary and secondary sectors, and in total, for 199091 to 200002 and projected for the financial year 200203, adjusted for inflation at current values. [29507]

Mr. Timms [holding answer 22 January 2002]: The following table contains the latest available information:

Cambridgeshire

Real terms figures(68)

199091

199192

199293

199394

199495

199596

199697

199798

199899

19992000

NCE per pupil

Pre Primary/Primary

1,640

1,790

2,130

2,100

2,190

2,180

2,120

2,030

2,090

2,200

Secondary

2,590

2,670

2,910

2,800

2,850

2,750

2,740

2,700

2,630

2,770

Total

2,030

2,150

2,460

2,390

2,470

2,420

2,380

2,300

2,300

2,430

SSA per pupil

Pre Pri/Primary

1,790

1,960

2,010

1,970

2,010

1,990

2,030

1,910

2,080

2,190

Secondary

2,570

2,670

2,700

2,760

2,730

2,640

2,670

2,640

2,640

2,680

Total

2,110

2,250

2,300

2,300

2,310

2,260

2,290

2,200

2,300

2,390

(68) All figures are in real terms at 200001 prices, and rounded to the nearest £10.

Notes:

1. Information for 200002 and 200203 is not yet available and as a result it is not possible to arrive at a projection.

2. Figures for 199091 to 199899 include grant maintained schools. Figures for 19992000 include ex-GM schools.

3. Expenditure data for 19992000 is taken from S52 outturn statements completed by local education authorities and returned to DfES. Data for all previous years is taken from DETR's Revenue Outturn Returns.

4. For the years 199091 to 199293, Net Current Expenditure after recharges was not recorded in the RO1. Net Recurrent Expenditure is used for these years. Therefore, per pupil figures for these years may not be strictly comparable with the later years.

5. SSA figures implicitly cover funding for Special Schools, and there is no split available for special schools.

6. The NCE figures provided here are for pre primary/primary and secondary only. Hence the two sets of figures are not comparable

7. Pupil numbers used in calculating per pupil figures are financial year averages, based on January Annual School Census returns.

8. Pupil numbers for secondary schools for 199091, 199192 and 199293 include sixth form colleges; these ceased to be classified as schools in April 1993.

9. Cambridgeshire was re-organised in 199899.

Training

Chris Ruane:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many adults aged over 25 years are without access to training, broken down by region expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) the total figure, ranked in descending order according to percentage figures for the period in which the latest figures are available. [30578]

John Healey:
Set out is information from the National Adult Learning Survey (NALS2001). It shows the number of people (in thousands) aged 26 and over who are classed as non-learners. A non-learner is someone who has not

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taken part in any of the NALS-defined learning activities over the past three years. The information is not available for Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Government office region

Percentage of GOR who are non-learners

Number (Thousand)

Population in GOR (Thousand)

Wales

47

916

1,962

Yorkshire and Humberside

41

1,373

3,349

North West

37

1,695

4,543

North East

37

637

1,713

West Midlands

35

1,251

3,545

East Midlands

34

966

2,832

London

31

1,472

4,738

South West

30

1,013

3,394

Eastern

28

1,028

3,695

South East

25

1,347

5,473

It is important to note that most of these non-learners have chosen not to do any learning or are restricted by family/work circumstances. They are not usually non- learners as a result of access problems.In terms of factors that might restrict access, some of the access-related obstacles to learning (not mutually exclusive) mentioned by non-learners include:

Cannot find local opportunities to learn (12 per cent.);

Problems arranging transport to the course (15 per cent.);

Course difficult due to health/disability (9 per cent.).

Qualifications (19-year-olds)

Chris Ruane:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many 19-year-olds there are without a basic qualification, broken down by region, expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) total number, ranked in descending order according to percentages for the latest date for which figures are available. [30592]

Mr. Ivan Lewis:
The information readily available has been derived from the Labour Force Survey and is given in the table.

Estimates of the numbers and proportions of 19-year-olds(67) with no qualifications by region, 200001, United Kingdom

Population aged 19 (Thousand)

Numbers with no qualifications (Thousand)

Proportion with no qualifications(68) (Percentage)

United Kingdom

726

61

8

Home countries

Northern Ireland

23

2

9

Wales

43

4

9

England

605

49

8

Scotland

54

4

7

Government office regions

East Midlands

55

6

10

West Midlands

61

6

10

East

63

6

9

Yorkshire and the Humber

61

5

8

London

93

7

7

North West

74

5

7

South East

101

7

7

North East

38

2

6

South West

59

3

6

Notes:

1. Due to small sample sizes, the proportion of 19 to 21-year-olds with no qualifications have been used as a proxy for 19-year-olds without qualifications.

2. Estimates of the proportion with no qualifications are subject to sampling error. Figures are accurate to:

±1 percentage point for UK and England estimates (eg estimate for England lies between 7 per cent. and 9 per cent.),

±2 percentage points for Yorkshire, London, North West, South East, South West and Scotland estimates,

±3 percentage points for East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, North East and Wales estimates, and

±4 percentage points for the Northern Ireland estimate (eg the proportion lies between 5 per cent. and 13 per cent.)

Excellence in Cities

Mr. Cousins:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the Standards Fund and Excellence in Cities allocations for the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in 200102 and the provisional indication of allocations for 200203. [31473]

Mr. Timms:
The following table shows allocations for the Standards Fund and Excellence in Cities for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in 200102, and the provisional allocations so far announced for 200203. The figures include both Government and local authority contributions.

200102 Standards fund allocations for City of Newcastle upon

Tyne council

£

Adult: Pupil Ratios in Reception Classes

685,209

Advanced Skills Teachers

162,500

Beacon Schools

116,500

Children in Public Care

44,317

Children of Asylum Seekers

57,500

City Learning Centres

1,200,000

Class Size Recurrent Funding

1,319,707

Devolved Capital

2,025,164

Drug Prevention

69,510

Early Years Training and Development

72,002

Education Health Partnerships

31,689

Ethnic Minority Achievement

613,453

Family Literacy and Numeracy

45,200

Fresh Start

250,000

Gifted and Talented Children Summer Schools

18,000

Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers

278,145

Information Management Strategy

146,998

Key Stage 3: National Implementation

288,063

LEA Music Services

234,600

Literacy and Numeracy Summer Schools

70,000

Maintained Nursery School Service

119,189

National Curriculum

88,062

National Grid for Learning

1,145,169

NDS Condition Funding

1,701,927

Performance Management

146,664

Playing for Success

50,000

Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies

1,031,147

Qualifications

11,202

Schools Achievement Awards

266,280

School Improvement

961,000

School Laboratories

339,716

School Leadership

125,647

School Security

107,799

Seed Capital Challenge

192,864

Sick Children

12,662

Small Education Action Zones

318,120

Small Schools Fund

328,591

Social Inclusion: Pupil Support

1,405,300

Special Educational Needs

462,163

Specialist Schools

1,099,620

Study Support

287,697

Supported Early Retirement Scheme for Heads

40,000

Teachers' Sabbaticals

90,000

Teaching Assistants

1,094,654

Teenage Pregnancies

100,900

Traveller Children Achievement

31,502

Year 6 Booster Classes

222,892

Year 9 Booster Classes

54,000

Youth Service

11,650

Excellence in Cities

Excellence in Cities: Excellence Challenge

262,334

Excellence in Cities: Secondary(67)

1,903,000

Total

21,740,308

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200203 Standards fund allocations for City of Newcastle upon

Tyne council

£

Adult: Pupil Ratios in Reception Classes

298,958

Advanced Skills Teachers (ASTs)

128,250

Beacon Schools

154,500

Capital Funding for Nursery Education in Disadvantaged Areas

98,178

Class Size Initiative

31,875

Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention

73,107

Early Years Training and Development

72,002

Education Health Partnerships

32,439

Ethnic Minority Achievement

613,453

Gifted and Talented Summer Schools

18,000

Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers

327,117

KS3 Strategy and Summer Schools

891,734

LEA Music Services

403,926

National Grid for Learning

1,580,283

NDS Condition Funding

2,609,476

NDS Devolved Formula Capital

1,435,678

New School Security Projects

49,051

Performance Management and Threshold Assessment

150,829

Playing for Success

50,000

Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies

926,761

Qualifications

17,875

School Improvement

1,056,250

Seed Challenge Capital

322,740

Sick Children and Children in Public Care

63,567

Small Schools Fund

376,000

Social Inclusion: Pupil Support

1,445,949

Special Educational Needs

514,894

Study Support

480,658

Teacher Recruitment Incentives

96,115

Teacher Sabbaticals

162,000

Teaching Assistants

1,086,584

Teenage Pregnancies

56,646

Traveller Children Achievement

31,502

Year 6 Booster Classes

224,658

Excellence in Cities

Excellence in Cities: Excellence Challenge

594,094

Excellence in Cities: Primary and Secondary(69)

2,033,663

Total

18,508,812

(69) Including Gifted and Talented Children, Learning Support Units and Learning Mentors